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...evening the Overseers and the ladies of the party will be given a dinner at the Raleigh Tavern by Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. On Sunday they will attend morning services at Bruton Parish Church, after which they will entertain their hosts at luncheon at the Williamsburg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overseers Will Hold Meeting in Virginia | 4/17/1941 | See Source »

...Mexico City, before dawn one morning last week, 34-year-old Captain Gabriel Avila Camacho stopped for breakfast at Wimpy's, a hot-dog tavern on the Avenida Oaxaca, near the U.S. Embassy. He was on his way to Texcoco, 25 miles away, where he was building a factory. Gabriel is the youngest of four Avila Camacho brothers. His older brother, Manuel, is President of Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The President's Other Brother | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...Investigation Division of the District Attorney's office, he told his story again. Young Cacho Ramirez, he thought, had mistaken him for another man with whom the jeweler's son had quarreled earlier in the night. The gun had gone off accidentally. Witnesses at the tavern said they saw nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The President's Other Brother | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...crowded a lively hour were Trumpeter Louis Armstrong, Actor Canada Lee (see p. 76), Violinist Eddie South. Of all the performers only three had sponsored berths in radio: Eddie Anderson, the Rochester of the Jack Benny show, Band Leader John Kirby and Comedian Eddie Greene of Duffy's Tavern. Obvious is the reason so few have made the aerial grade: they are Negroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: No Sale | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

...hotel in one of the rare London hacks when a bomb landed about a mile ahead. A few seconds later another bomb exploded about half that distance away, which meant that the next one would strike just about where he was. The cabbie dashed panic-stricken into a nearby tavern and Greene threw himself on the floor of the back. The bomb lit only 100 yards away and its concussion knocked the correspondent against the side of the cab shaken but unhurt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALUMNUS FINDS U.S. GAINING GREAT RESPECT IN ENGLAND | 2/11/1941 | See Source »

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